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Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. [1] . Professionally, she was often known as Mrs. John Drew . Life and career. Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway revival of The Rivals (1895)
Louisa Lane Drew (born Jan. 10, 1820, London, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1897, Larchmont, N.Y., U.S.) was a noted American actress and manager of Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theatre company in Philadelphia, which was one of the finest in American theatre history.
Drew family, American theatre family. Louisa Lane (later Louisa Lane Drew; 1820–97) began her stage career at age eight in Philadelphia, where her widowed mother had brought her from England. Her many successful parts included Lady Teazle, Mrs. Malaprop, and such “breeches” roles as Shakespeare’s
British actress and theater manager. Name variations: Mrs. John Drew. Born Louisa Lane on January 10, 1820, at Lambeth Parish, London, England; died in Larchmont, New York, on August 31, 1897; daughter of Eliza Trentner (an actress) and William Haycraft Lane (an actor and stage manager); married Henry Blaine Hunt, in 1836 (divorced 1846 ...
LOUISA LANE DREW Rivka Kelly University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses Recommended Citation Kelly, Rivka, "THE DUCHESS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LOUISA LANE DREW" (2014). UVM Honors College Senior Theses. 23. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/23
Louisa (Lane) Drew's "Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew" was published in 1899 two years after her death August 31, 1897. At the time of her death The New York Times wrote that : "Mrs. John Drew probably had a longer career than any other actress. She was a remarkably ...
theatrical manager actress. Louisa Lane Drew was a British-American actress, theatrical manager, part proprietor of the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the wife of Sr. Drew John. She was a clever mimic and “quick study, ” and became famous as an “infant phenomenon” over the country.
